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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Black Voices in Opera
    part number: Part 2
  name:
    name part: Monarda Arts (Firm)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Biographies
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (49 minutes)
  abstract: Think of today's top operatic voices, and black owners of them are as likely to come into the list as white ones: Willard White, Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle to name only three. We know it wasn't always thus - Paul Robeson's struggles to be recognised as a great singer, instead of a black singer, went on for many decades. But this programme reveals just how hard the journey to acceptance of America's black singers has been. It opens with one of the greatest voices of the 20th century: Marian Anderson and a clip of her magnificent performance of ,Ave Maria'. The film offers newsreel footage from her landmark 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial, which was held after the Daughters of the American Revolution denied her access to their Constitution Hall venue. But the black tradition of classical singing goes back even further: Before Leontye Price, Jessye Norman and even before Marian Anderson, Sissieretta Jones was arguably the greatest black performer of 19th century America and certainly the first great black diva. Sissieretta Jones, the ,Black Patti', an allusion to Italian-American primadonna Adelina Patti, performed before four American presidents, mesmerized critics and audiences alike and was so successful that at one concert in New Jersey 1,000 visitors had to be turned away. The film Aida's Brothers and Sisters intends to focus the viewer's gaze particularly on the black classic and also on the fascinating mixed forms that have developed from the confrontation of white and black music in the last hundred years. The encounter with the powerful personalities of the singers and their music will reveal the humour, the lust for life, and the spiritual depth of black culture, and will perhaps add a dash of colour to a white fin de siècle culture that is in danger of contracting anaemia. A fascinating documentary with historical and contemporary fi lm and video records of performances by Leontyne Price, Simon Estes, Grace Bumbry, Reri Grist and many others.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Monarda Arts.
  subject:
    topic: African American singers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Chanteurs noirs américains
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: African American singers
  classification: ML400 .M663 2000
  classification: 782.0092396073
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OPV
    record creation date: 230615
    record change date: 20241201231108.8
    record identifier: in00005558514
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng